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P. MESKER & H. F. EDWARDS.

PLATE METAL COLUMN.

Patented July 10, 1888.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK MESKER AND HENRY F. EDWARDS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PLATE=METAL COLUMN.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,765, dated July 10, 1888.

(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that We, FRANK MESKER and HENRY F. EDWARDS, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Improve mentin Plate-Metal Columns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to sheet-metal columns used in building-fronts, and composed mainly of sheetanetal plates and angle-irons, and more especially to that class of such columns termed angle columns.

The improvement consists in the special shape and combination of the parts composing the column, substantially as is hereinafter described and claimed, and as illustrated in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa front elevation of theimproved column as before being ornamented; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical section of the column ornamented; Fig. 4, a view in perspective, from its front, of the ornamented column; Fig. 5, a vertical section,upon an enlarged scale, showing in detached parts the front portion of the ornamented column;

and Fig. 6, a horizontal section, upon an enlarged scale, on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The column is composed of three parts-an angle-iron, A, a sheet shaped to form the face B and the check 0, and an angle'iromD. The angle-iron A is attached to the edge 6 of the face, and the angle-iron D is attached to the edge a of the cheek O, substantially as de scribed.

The ornamental portions E F G, each or all of them, may be attached to the face of the column, substantially as shown.

we claim- 7 The herein-described angle-column, consisting of a sheeflshaped to form the face and cheek of the column,and angle-irons attached,

respectively, to the edges of the face and 5 check, as described.

FRANK MESKER. HENRY F. EDWARDS. 

